Jaclyn Moriarty

Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

The year of secret assignments

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Secret of Lillian Velvet

As part of a pen pal program, three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.

The Year of Secret Assignments

Oscar is just skipping school and hanging out at the local skatepark when he suddenly finds himself transported into a world very different to his. And this is his own account of his adventures from Monday to Friday last week. In the company of Bronte Mettlestone, Esther, Imogen and Alejandro, ordinary Oscar finds himself on a quest to locate nine separate pieces of a key, held by nine separate people, in order to unlock a complicated spell that had trapped the Elven city of Dun-sorey-lo-vay-lo-hey. If they don't succeed in their quest, on Friday at noon the spell becomes permanent, the Elves will be crushed to death and Oscar will be trapped in this magical world forever. (The account, it should be noted, has been written at the request of Oscar's school's Deputy Head Teacher. She wants to know exactly what Oscar considered more important than coming to school last week.)

The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere

Fourteen-year-old Madeleine of Cambridge, England, struggling to cope with poverty and her mother's illness, and 15-year-old Elliot of the Kingdom of Cello in a parallel world where colors are villainous and his father is missing, begin exchanging notes through a crack between their worlds and find they can be of great help to each other.

A Corner of White

"Splendidly entertaining." --Kirkus Reviews ¿"A delightfully quirky story with nuance, depth, and a colorful cast of characters, this book begs for multiple readings." --School Library Journal (starred) ¿"Like a middle-grade version of Terry Pratchett's Discworld--fantasy adventure steeped in humor, with a touch of satire, and set in a whimsical secondary world of the highest order." --Booklist (starred) "The tale crescendos to an uplifting close that promotes honesty, bravery, and self-confidence." --Publishers Weekly Twelve-year-old Esther Mettlestone-Staranise loves reading books and writing stories but is troubled by low self-esteem and recurring bad dreams. When she starts the year at boarding school in earnest, she quickly notices something isn't quite right. Her two best friends are mysteriously missing. There are rumors her new teacher is secretly an actual ogre. And the scenic mountains of her quaint little town are teeming with Shadow Mages and danger. As secrets and dangers escalate, Esther must find the answers to several puzzles. Why is her teacher behaving so oddly? Which of Esther's classmates is the Spellbinder, and can they really protect the school from gathering hordes of Shadow Mages? Could the Stolen Prince of Cloudburst be connected? How can Esther - who is not talented like her sisters, nor an adventurer like her cousin, but just Esther - save her family, her school and possibly her entire world?

The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst

Bronte Mettlestone tem apenas dez anos quando um telegrama anuncia que os seus pais foram mortos por piratas. Isso não a afeta assim muito, já que os seus pais tinham fugido para viver aventuras quando ela era ainda bebé. Foi criada pela sua tia Isabelle, com a ajuda do Mordomo, e passou uma infância agradável com muitos chás em sociedade e aulas de equitação. Só que, agora, os pais deixaram instruções específicas a Bronte no seu testamento. (Instruções que, inconvenientemente, foram reforçadas com ponto de cruz de Fada, o que significa que, se ela não for bem-sucedida, podem acontecer coisas terríveis!) Bronte tem de viajar pelos reinos, completamente sozinha, para entregar prendas a dez outras tias: uma tia agricultora que tem um pomar de laranjeiras, uma tia veterinária especializada em tratar dragões, duas tias que são comandantes de um navio de cruzeiro, uma tia que é uma antiga estrela de rock e que agora é a rainha de um pequeno reino, e muitas mais. Mas, à medida que prossegue com a sua odisseia de tia em tia, Bronte começa a suspeitar que esta viagem poderá ser mais do que uma simples entrega de presentes...

As Extremamente Inconvenientes Aventuras de Bronte Mettlestone

A unique blend of humor, suspense, and magic, unfolding through the instantly recognizable rivalries, affections and foibles of her characters, from Jaclyn Moriarty During a sleepover, a letter comes to five children begging for the urgent assistance of Esther Mettlestone-Staranise, the newly-realized Rain Weaver; she must arrive before 10am on Monday to save an entire town of elves. When they arrive, the children find two incredibly odd things: first, the town of elves, buried under layers of silver; and second, a regular-size boy who, soon after seeing the children, dies. Oscar is that boy who skipped school in our world on Monday to skate, and found himself in the city of the elves at just the wrong moment: He fled as fast as he could, but not fast enough because the silver wave struck him and he fell down dead.

Oscar From Elsewhere

An epistolary first novel uses letters written between teenage friends, refrigerator notes from a crazy mother, and epistles that express the narrator's own internal feelings of self-doubt to weave this bitttersweet coming of age story. A first novel. 35,000 first printing.

A Novel

Feeling Sorry for Celia

A fairytale for grown-ups.The Zing family lives in a misguided world of spell books, flying beach umbrellas, and state-of-the-art covert surveillance equipment. There's a slippery Zing, a graceful Zing, and a Zing who runs as fast as a bus. But most significant of all, there's the Zing Family Secret: so immense that it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night.I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes is a grown-up fairytale, and a mystery set in the suburbs. It's about what happens when hope leads to sad and hilarious mistakes and when mistakes lead to hope once again. It's about what happens when you meet a Zing.The first adult novel from the award-winning author of Feeling Sorry for Celia and Finding Cassie Crazy.PRAISE FOR JACLYN MORIARTY"[Moriarty] has carefully and cleverly built an extraordinary book of great charm and originality... [the] narrative is studded with wry and lovely observations on life" Sunday Telegraph

I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes

The second book in the captivating Colours of Madeleine series "Beautifully written and deftly imagined" NSW Literary Awards "Madcap, whimsical, smart ... Even better than the first." Kirkus Time slides around the world so strangely ... It's not easy being Princess Ko. Her family is missing, taken to the World through cracks in the Kingdom, which were then sealed tightly behind them. Now Princess Ko is running the Kingdom, and war is looming. To help her find her family, she gathers a special group of teens, including Elliot Baranski of the Farms. He's been writing secret letters to a Girl-in-the World named Madeleine Tully - and now the Kingdom needs her help. Madeleine and Elliot must locate the missing royals, convince them of their true identities, and figure out how to unlock the dangerous cracks between the Kingdom and the World. All before their enemies can stop them. WINNER - Aurealis Award (Best Young Adult Novel) 2014 WINNER - Queensland Literary Awards 2014 WINNER - New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards (Ethel Turner Prize) 2014 Shortlisted - Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2015

The Cracks in the Kingdom: The Colours of Madeleine 2

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Misterul din Regat

Jaclyn Moriarty returns with her first middle-grade novel, a buoyantly high-spirited fantasy adventure. Bronte Mettlestone is ten years old when her parents are killed by pirates. This does not bother her particularly: her parents ran away to have adventures when she was a baby. She has been raised by her Aunt Isabelle, with assistance from the Butler, and has spent a pleasant childhood of afternoon teas and riding lessons. Now, however, her parents have left detailed instructions for Bronte in their will. (Instructions that, annoyingly, have been reinforced with faery cross-stitch, which means that if she doesn't complete them, terrible things could happen!) She travels the kingdoms, perfectly alone, delivering gifts to ten other aunts: a farmer aunt who owns an orange orchard, a veterinarian aunt who specializes in dragon care, a pair of aunts who captain a cruise ship, and a former rock star aunt who is now the reigning monarch of a small kingdom. But as she travels from aunt to aunt, Bronte suspects there might be more to this journey than the simple delivery of treasure.

The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone

The first book in the captivating Colours of Madeleine series "Quirky, charming, funny, sad: another winner from this always-surprising author." Kirkus "Perfectly strange ... Jaclyn Moriarty is one of the most original writers we have." Markus Zusak Madeleine Tully lives in Cambridge, England, the World - a city of spires, Isaac Newton and Auntie's Tea Shop. Elliot Baranski lives in Bonfire, the Farms, the Kingdom of Cello - where seasons roam, the Butterfly Child sleeps in a glass jar, and bells warn of attacks from dangerous Colours. They are worlds apart - until a crack opens up between them; a corner of white - the slim seam of a letter. Elliot begins to write to Madeleine, the Girl-in-the-World - a most dangerous thing to do, for suspected cracks must be reported and closed. But Elliot's father has disappeared and Madeleine's mother is sick. Can a stranger from another world help to unravel the mysteries in your own? Can Madeleine and Elliot find the missing pieces of themselves before it is too late? Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award Ethel Turner Prize 2013 Winner of Queensland Literary Awards' Young Adult Book Award 2013 Shortlisted for WA Premier's Literary Awards' Young Adult 2012

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